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The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 336 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,405,778 ratings — published 2015
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,575,556 ratings — published 2012
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,493,203 ratings — published 2014
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,672,828 ratings — published 2019
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.90 — 328,103 ratings — published 1962
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,798 ratings — published 1955
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.19 — 600,752 ratings — published 2020
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,143,330 ratings — published 1992
The Woman in the Window (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 134 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.93 — 920,545 ratings — published 2018
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,188,286 ratings — published 2023
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,030,522 ratings — published 1951
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 119 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.26 — 379,265 ratings — published 1926
Sometimes I Lie (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.73 — 397,513 ratings — published 2017
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.18 — 667,181 ratings — published 1996
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.06 — 392,155 ratings — published 1892
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.44 — 378,525 ratings — published 2019
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,175,569 ratings — published 1925
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.49 — 219,442 ratings — published 2016
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.80 — 338,112 ratings — published 2014
Before I Go to Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.89 — 377,545 ratings — published 2011
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,112,147 ratings — published 2026
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,233,028 ratings — published 2023
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 83 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,317,242 ratings — published 2018
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.80 — 438,207 ratings — published 1959
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.80 — 385,324 ratings — published 1991
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.79 — 170,129 ratings — published 2021
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,792,703 ratings — published 2001
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.14 — 390,681 ratings — published 1989
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,639,952 ratings — published 2003
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.09 — 215,985 ratings — published 2000
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,312,771 ratings — published 1847
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.96 — 581,118 ratings — published 2001
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.85 — 923,168 ratings — published 2005
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.38 — 190,570 ratings — published 1898
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,506,443 ratings — published 2017
The Dinner (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.22 — 180,635 ratings — published 2009
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.08 — 850,696 ratings — published 2010
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,088 ratings — published 2019
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,330,760 ratings — published 1963
Rock Paper Scissors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.86 — 843,713 ratings — published 2021
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.25 — 777,223 ratings — published 1938
You (You, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.96 — 302,556 ratings — published 2014
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,604 ratings — published 2003
The Wife Between Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.82 — 463,468 ratings — published 2018
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,559 ratings — published 2012
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.75 — 200,319 ratings — published 2011
Liar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.28 — 8,922 ratings — published 2009
Allegedly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 4.01 — 93,492 ratings — published 2017
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.77 — 114,919 ratings — published 2015
Beautiful Ugly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as unreliable-narrator)
avg rating 3.60 — 501,041 ratings — published 2025
“Perhaps it simply knows me better than I know it.”
― The Utmost Trial: A Psychological Horror Story
― The Utmost Trial: A Psychological Horror Story
“Tate explained that James was able to achieve this magic through the use of the first-person narrator. Tate said that the first person is the most difficult form because the writer is locked inside the head of the narrator and can’t get out. He can’t say “meanwhile, back at the ranch” as a transition to another subject because he is imprisoned forever inside the narrator. But so is the reader! And that is the strength of the first-person narrative. The reader does not see that the governess is the villainess because what the governess sees is all the reader ever sees.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
